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Instructions for Traveling West
Poems
Book • 2024
Instructions for Traveling West is a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown.
The poems grapple with loss, loneliness, and belonging, teaching readers that naming our desire is profound alchemy.
Sullivan weaves her early African childhood and the trauma of moving to Ohio as a white African child into her work, while also telling the story of her own mid-pandemic reinvention—leaving her fiancé, selling her house, and driving west to discover new possibilities.
The poems grapple with loss, loneliness, and belonging, teaching readers that naming our desire is profound alchemy.
Sullivan weaves her early African childhood and the trauma of moving to Ohio as a white African child into her work, while also telling the story of her own mid-pandemic reinvention—leaving her fiancé, selling her house, and driving west to discover new possibilities.
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